noun. An adult castrated bull of the genus Bos, especially B. taurus, used chiefly as a draft animal.

noun. A bovine mammal, especially one that has been domesticated.

noun. Same as ox-coin.

noun. The adult male of the domestic Bos taurus, known in the natural state as a bull, whose female is a cow, and whose young is a calf; in a wider sense, an animal of the family Bovidæ and subfamily Bovinæ or Ovibovinæ; a bovine.

noun. In a restricted sense, the castrated male of Bos taurus, at least 4 years old and full-grown or nearly so. (See steer.) Such animals are most used as draft-animals and for beef.

noun. The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female.

noun. the yak.

noun. the zebu.

noun. the banteng.

noun. See under Musk.

noun. See Ox gall, below.

noun. the fresh gall of the domestic ox; -- used in the arts and in medicine.

noun. ox marrow.

noun. a very large ray (Dicerobatis Giornæ) of Southern Europe. It has a hornlike organ projecting forward from each pectoral fin. It sometimes becomes twenty feet long and twenty-eight feet broad, and weighs over a ton. Called also sea devil.

noun. to be unfortunate; to know what sorrow is (because black oxen were sacrificed to Pluto).

noun. Any bovine animal used as a beast of burden or for food, especially an adult castrated male of the domestic species.

noun. any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos

noun. an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus